SoFi Stadium cost more than $5 billion to build, and yet there was apparently not enough room for the Dallas Cowboys’ Spanish broadcast team to have its own space during Monday Night Football. As a result, Victor Villalba and Luis Perez were forced to make the call from inside of the press box.
That is not normal, which made for an electric and hilarious scene.
Typically, NFL stadiums afford each of the broadcast teams — home and away — with their own booths. It isn’t always possible, and sometimes multiple networks or stations have to share. But for the most part, ESPN is separated from Telemundo, which is separated from CBS radio, which is separated from Fox radio, and so on and so forth. Everybody normally gets their own space.
Meanwhile, the press box is normally packed full of sports writers and journalists. Nobody inside of the press box is live on the air, outside of a quick update for social media or something like that. Nobody in the press box is constantly commenting on every play during the game.
Not on Monday!
Villalba is known as the “Spanish voice of the Dallas Cowboys.”
He and his broadcast partner, Perez, were in Los Angeles to call the game against the Chargers. They were forced to set up in the pressbox, rather than their own individual radio booth.
As a result, the other writers and journalists were treated to the sounds of the Spanish-language call throughout the entire game. And if you know anything about team-focused, Spanish-language broadcasts, they are intense and animated.
Villalba and Perez were going absolutely bonkers as the rest of the press box watched and listened.
No matter where the other reporters were seated, the Spanish broadcast was unavoidable. It echoed throughout the pressbox all night and brought the juice!
There is not a clear answer as to what happened with Villalba and Perez on Monday. However, it seems pretty weird that a multi-billion stadium wouldn’t have enough room for the official Spanish-language Cowboys broadcast.